VIDEO: An Inn Out of the Dana Home?
A Lexington woman is looking to redevelop the Dana Home and an adjacent property on Massachusetts Avenue as an inn and restaurant.
Trisha Perez Kennealy, owner of the Dana Home property at 2027 Massachusetts Ave., has begun making the rounds to town boards and revealing her plans to turn the former retirement residence into an inn and restaurant. A classically trained chef who used to work in banking, Perez Kennealy said she has long wanted to go into the hospitality business in Lexington, the town she called home as a child and to which she returned to raise her own family. Perez Kennealy targeted the Dana Home as a historical structure with architectural features that recall a bygone era of building and has an agreement to purchase the adjacent house and barn at 2013 Mass Ave. While Perez Kennealy is “excited about redeveloping the property as a small inn,” some …
